Be carefull, troops...
Posted on 01/09/2021 12:41:18 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Despite a campaign by Democrats and the establishment media to delegitimize President Donald Trump after Wednesday’s Capitol incursion, Department of Defense officials intend to avoid outside pressure and continue to recognize him as the commander in chief while avoiding taking part in “a military coup,” according to a report.
It was widely reported Friday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to limit the president’s access to the country’s so-called nuclear football, which contains launch codes for America’s vast arsenal of nuclear weapons.
Pelosi called Milley to ask him to ignore orders from Trump to use those codes. It’s unclear what initiated the call to Milley. No specific threat from Trump seems to exist, suggesting the call was made for political purposes.
The California Democrat reportedly told Milley she wants to limit the president from responding to international threats during the final days of his term.
NPR reported Pelosi told her Democratic colleagues she spoke to Milley about “available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike.”
“The situation of this unhinged President … could not be more dangerous and we must do everything that we can to protect the American people from his unbalanced assault on our country and our democracy,” Pelosi wrote.
But according to The New York Times, the Pentagon is remaining neutral in the partisan squabbling.
A statement from Col. Dave Butler, a spokesman for Milley, confirmed to The Times that the call took place.
“[Milley] answered her questions regarding the process of nuclear command authority,” Butler said.
The newspaper spoke to other Pentagon officials who were reportedly hesitant to get involved in Pelosi’s political match, according to Times reporters David Sanger and Eric Schmitt.
“Mr. Trump, they noted, is still the commander in chief; unless he is removed, the military is bound to follow his lawful orders. While military officials can refuse to carry out orders they view as illegal — or slow the process by sending those orders for careful legal review — they cannot remove the president from the chain of command. That would amount to a military coup, the officials said,” Sanger and Schmitt reported.
“The one issue that has worried officials the most is Iran’s announcement that it has begun enriching uranium to 20 percent purity — near the quality to make a bomb. In December, Mr. Trump asked for military options that might be taken in response to Iran’s escalating production of nuclear fuel, but he was talked out of it by a number of top officials, including General Milley and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,” the Times also reported.
Pelosi and other Democrats have used the events at the Capitol Building on Wednesday to justify going after Trump, and they have signaled they intend to exact political revenge against him following years of fear-mongering about his mental state during his final days in office.
Democrats have also announced they plan to again impeach the president, and there is chatter they might attempt to remove him from office by using the 25th Amendment with less than two weeks left in his term.
Other Democratic lawmakers have also reportedly put pressure on Milley since Wednesday. But for now, the military has reportedly rebuffed them and intends to remain neutral from politics.
Trump remains the only person in government with the capacity to directly order military action and who has the discretion to use the country’s nuclear arsenal. Any attempt to deny him the tools to carry out his duties presiding over national security would be unlawful, unless there is an invocation of the 25th Amendment, or any orders given to Pentagon officials by him are determined to be themselves unlawful.
President-elect Joe Biden will be inaugurated on Jan. 20, at which point he will be given command over the country’s military and nuclear arsenal.
impeach Pelosi for attempted military coup.
“How am I going to follow these people in 20 days”
Same a they did before under Obama, on their knees saying “yes master, whatever you want great dear leader”
These elected lowlifes like Pelosi denounce the protesters breaching their chamber.
The claim it is a threat to ‘our’ democracy, a threat to ‘our’ founders and a threat to ‘our’ principles,
‘our’ history, ‘our’ elections and ‘our’ sacred capitol.......is laughable.
What they’re really talking about is THEIR private elective club.
That is what they want to preserve.It’s all about Their Interests Their power. Their safety and security.
Not our country, our freedom, our families’ safety and security.
There ya go. Hoisted on the petards of her own words. Whatever a petard is.
“Any attempt to deny him the tools to carry out his duties presiding over national security would be unlawful, unless there is an invocation of the 25th Amendment, or any orders given to Pentagon officials by him are determined to be themselves unlawful.”
More bullshit. The Pentagon has zero authority to adjudicate the legality of a nuclear weapons order. Their SOLE authority is to confirm that the President issued the order.
It’s pretty obvious here that the one with the loose screws is Natzi Pelosi...She needs to be removed from Congress...From America...
Hey, maybe I’m wrong, but that sounds like conspiracy to commit sedition under USC title 10 etc.
Hey, I could be wrong...
5.56mm
Isn’t an attempt by the military to oust an elected President the very definition of a junta?
China is getting ready to attack us. She wants to make sure that we are absolutely unable to respond, to reply or defend ourselves.
Prosecute Pelosi for attempting to seize the codes
UCMJ
“Impeach Pelosi for attempted military coup.”
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You think the Dem run House is going to do that?
It would probably be Title 18, Section 2284
Be carefull, troops...
A petard is a small bomb typically used to breach a door.
Oh. Thanks. I must be thinking of a different word.
Since impeachment seems to be all the rage these days, can we start impeaching these Dems who are trying to turn the military against Trump on the grounds of treason, sedition, and intentional and malicious usurpation of executive power?
“Pelosi called Milley to ask him to ignore orders from Trump to use those codes. It’s unclear what initiated the call to Milley. No specific threat from Trump seems to exist, suggesting the call was made for political purposes.”
Pelosi initiated the call to instill in people’s mind that trump is too dangerous to be allowed to remain as president. Play acting, nothing more or less. Something just to undermine trump while making Pelosi look good.
heart wrenching photo.
GOD’s judgement is about to be lambasted on America because of leadership such as this.
RE: Pelosi initiated the call to instill in people’s mind that trump is too dangerous to be allowed to remain as president.
Isn’t that trying to usurp the role and job of the President?
How does one impeach the Speaker of the house?
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